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Brian Lunn (1893–1956) was a British writer and translator. He was born in Bloomsbury, London to Methodist parents. He had a somewhat Puritanical upbringing, his father Henry Simpson Lunn (1859-1939), founder of Lunn's Travel agency that would become Lunn Poly, having strong religious beliefs which were in conflict with his talent as a businessman. Arnold Lunn and Hugh Kingsmill were his brothers. In the mid-1920s Lunn was living at 50 Manchester St, London, W1. 'Unreal? The word came back to me as a sudden illumination. That was it, it was all a staged show.'

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  • Brian Lunn (1893–1956) was a British writer and translator. He was born in Bloomsbury, London to Methodist parents. He had a somewhat Puritanical upbringing, his father Henry Simpson Lunn (1859-1939), founder of Lunn's Travel agency that would become Lunn Poly, having strong religious beliefs which were in conflict with his talent as a businessman. Arnold Lunn and Hugh Kingsmill were his brothers. In the mid-1920s Lunn was living at 50 Manchester St, London, W1. 'Unreal? The word came back to me as a sudden illumination. That was it, it was all a staged show.' (en)
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  • Brian Lunn (1893–1956) was a British writer and translator. He was born in Bloomsbury, London to Methodist parents. He had a somewhat Puritanical upbringing, his father Henry Simpson Lunn (1859-1939), founder of Lunn's Travel agency that would become Lunn Poly, having strong religious beliefs which were in conflict with his talent as a businessman. Arnold Lunn and Hugh Kingsmill were his brothers. In the mid-1920s Lunn was living at 50 Manchester St, London, W1. His most important work as a writer was 'Switchback', his autobiography published in 1948. Its highlight is Brian's description of a mental breakdown he had while serving in Mesopotamia in the 11th Black Watch. The onset of his breakdown was described as follows: 'Men and beasts passed through the haze, black outlines; a troop of mules with Indian driver was a stately silhouette; shambling after them a bucket-carrying menial with tousled turban and bedraggled shirt flapping round flexed knees was an immortal grotesque, raised above the plane of human need and anxiety. The Platonic Idea, as interpreted by Schopenhauer, the basis of art. Removed from all appeal to the will, the horrible was transmuted into the beautiful. He was, in fact, a sanitary man staggering back from a punishment fatigue; constantly in trouble, he would incur more fatigues, with stoppages of pay, staggering in the bog of inefficiency under implacable authority. ' '...I looked along the river banks - tents and incinerators, horses and mules, soldiers, native and European, a complex of endeavour in an enterprise as unreal as all the day-to-day needs and anxieties and discomforts, ambitions and humiliations of each individual, were real.' 'Unreal? The word came back to me as a sudden illumination. That was it, it was all a staged show.' His other books include a biography of Martin Luther, an "autobiography" of Satan which he "collated" in collaboration with William Gerhardie, a travel guide to Belgium, and a history of the Rothschild family. "Salvation Dynasty" was Brian Lunn's account of the Salvation Army's founders. (en)
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